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Authorised form of nameGibbes; Sir; George Smith (1771 - 1851)
Dates1771 - 1851
Date of birth1771
Place of deathSidmouth, Devon
Date of death23 June 1851
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
The Family vault, Woodborough, Wiltshire
OccupationPhysician
ActivityEducation:
Exeter College, Oxford. AB (1792); AM (1795); MB (1796); MD (1799)
Career:
Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford; practised in Bath; Physician, Bath General Hospital (1804); Physician Extraordinary to Queen Charlotte (1819); retired from practice (ca 1835)
Honours:
Kt 1820
Memberships:
FCP (1804)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election18/02/1796
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/306130639
CodeNA3660
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
L&P/12/3Paper, 'On the galvanic process' by George Smith Gibbes1801
EC/1795/19Gibbes, Sir George Smith: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/13/394Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Dr J Murray Gibbes, Border Town, South Australia14 August 1896
L&P/10/132Paper, 'On the conversion of animal substance into a fatty matter' by George Smith Gibbes1795
L&P/10/76Paper, 'On the conversion of animal muscle into a substance much resembling Spermaceti' by George Smith Gibbes1794
L&P/10/107Paper, 'On the conversion of animal substances into a fatty matter much resembling Spermacet' by George Smith Gibbes1795
AP/13/8Unpublished paper, 'On the life of plants and animals' by Sir Geo [George] Smith Gibbes[1828]
AP/13/7Unpublished paper, 'On alimentary substances' by Sir Geo [George] Smith Gibbes[1827]
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